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VOLUME 31
GILANDPA'S SOLILOQUV
It wasn't so when I was young,
We used plain language then;
We didn't speak of "than ploots,"
When meaning boys or men.
When sptaking of the nice hand-write
Ot Joe, or Tom, or Bill,
We did it plain—we didn't say,
"Be swings a nasty quill."
An' when we seed a gal we liked,
Who never failed to please,
We called her pretty, neat and good,
Bet not "about the cheese."
Well, when we met a good old friend
We hadn't lately seen,
We greeted him—hut didn't say,
"Hello, you old sardine."
The boys sometimes got mad anti tit ;
We spoke of kicks sod blovq, ;
But now they "whack him in the afoot
And "paste him on the nose.'
Once when 4 youth was turned away
From her he loved most deu,
Ile walked of on his feet—but now
no crawls ohr on his ear."
We used to dance when I was young,
Ann used to call it t.o;
But n'w they don't—they only "sling
The light fantastic toe."
Of death we speak in language plain,
That, no one will perplex ;
Wat thee days oae doesn't die--
Ile "passes in his checks."
We praised the man of common sense;
fits judgment's good, we said:
But now they say,"Well, that old blunt
lias got a level bead."
orElm
It's rather sad the children now
Are learning all such talk :
They've learned to "chin," instead ut chat
And "waltz," instead of walk.
To little Harry yeaterdny
-3lt gratin aged I
I said, "You g.r..to,trmr scud he
"You bet your boots I tlo."
eld'dren bowel to smingers once
It o- no n_er so--
The little girlQ, as well AS boys,
Now greet you WILL "Hello."
Ott, give me hack the good old days,
When both the old and young
Conversed in plain old-fashioned words
And slang was never "slung."
"Oh, you might to see the new gentle
man r' exclaimed Nadie Ford, as she
rushed into the boarding-house parlor,
where the three eligible ladies of the
house were lounging. Such magnifieant
diatnauds! Just think, he wears It pin as
large as a lrying•pan and a ring co match
and he's a Californian, and isn't married
and he must be as rich as ercems, for he's
taken a rosewood room nil to himself.
He is looking for a wife, too ; I heard
him tell Mrs. Crumpet so myself. Isn't it
splendid ?' And Nellie clap,x•d her hands
and waltzed around the rom.
A rich bachelor looking for a wife,—
The ladies, as if cl.-etrified, started front
apathy u»d pagerl7 besieged Nellie, Rh o
had been favored with a look at him.with
all sorts of questions concerning
`What is he like asked Bell, who
doted on tall men. 'ls he tull cr short ?
sial Nelhe,hesitatingly . 'he isn't
very tall ; in fact. he is rather short and
pretty Stout ton.'
'Oh !' exclaimed Miss Bell, it impa
tience and diszu t ; 'hut he must have
lots of money, though.' the added, .8 , one
can overlook defects. Is he handsome
iii the face Nellie r
'Not very,' said Nellie, again. 'Yon see
his face is pretty red' and his hair to o .'
Ah ? weather Jbeaten front exposure
at the mines,' said .Mrs. Lee, au interet.
rag widow, on a sharp lookout for num
ber two. 'Such a delightful. tuivehtur
''us life ! And an a these Californians
are so chivalrous, and such worshipers of
sex ; and so liberal, too, V.eir gifts
are often princely.' Here Mrs. Lee glanc
ed compl.niently at her pretty fingers as
if in her mind's eye she saw the new
gentleman's big ring flashing there.
The evening brought our new pies , .
whom (not kli“wittg his proper numelwe
christened him •Diamonds'—a name rim:
stuck to him to the end of the chapter.
After dinner he held a kind of a court
in the parlor,at which all the lady hoard
ers of Mrs. Crumpet's establishment
were present. And never on any occasion
had they so vied with each oilier in Welt
dur of costume,
lust think,' said candid, but worldly
minded Nellie, 'flit wasn't for the man's
diamonds, quite likely, we never should
speak to him, for goodness knows there's
tintlimg in kiti looks to recommead him.
The others, less candid, would not
agree with her. His diamonds and el .1 ,
orate dress rather enhanced than hid a
ruffianly look he had, which they all call
ed his charming piratical air; and he
was sweetly and playfully compared to
Captain Kidd, Byror's Corsair, and
scores of other darlings of romance.
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Ile at once became the lion of the
nouse—yes, indeed, in more ways than
one ; for, like the roarit g lion he went
about seeking whom he might devour
out was sensible enough not to roar to
scare away the prey. He was consulted
on all matters of business by the gentle
: men. who would sit absorbed listeners to
Ills accounts of mining, and descriptions
of the countries he hat] traveled through.
But no one seemed to notice the fact that
he never knew anything about the many
persons whose names were mentioned to
him, although the life he described as
haying led must have brought him in
close contact with many of them.
It was impossible foran outsider to tell
which was Diamond's favorite among
ladies. After breakfast be would lounge.
morning paper in hand, into the parlor.
where the widow and Mitt Bell were sure
rerusir.
Both ladies biire this partnership with
good nature, as each one managed plenty
of private interviews with him. Dia
POETRY.
STORY TELLER
MR. DIAMONDS,
MONTROSE, PA.. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1874
monde improved these interviews so well,
that be soon lwcarrie the affianced hits
band or ti.e widow, and the ardent and
favored nitor or Miss Beli.
So each lady being multr the blissful
delusion that she was the sale object of his
choice, could, in his sweet security allow
him to be gallant to her friedd ; it was
so gentleman!).
•We will keen our engagement a sweet
secret, darling.' be said to the widow,
'until my hirtlidaydust three weeks hence.
It seems a long time to wad, dear one,
be said caressing ber. 'bat it would give
me much pleasure to make it known on
d a y, flow astonished they all will
be, won t the y, rt. ? Now just set your
little lead to thinking what. pretty things
like ire to get for you). Do
hot be afraid to tell what you fancy, for
whatever money can purchase my wife
shall have.'
'Caere was no need to make any such
request of Mrs Lee, for her little heat!
had been busy thud:leg of what she in
' tended to have ever since she had Dia
monds. First came his diamond ring
and pia—each, as Nellie said, as large as
a fry which she already looked
upon as her own property.
•It is iii bad taste for a gentleman to
make such a display,' she said to herself.
.1 eau easily talk Itim into giving, them
to me. Won't thev all he jealous! There
was that absurd Miss Bell, and that con
tempi Nile scnool-gii I Nellie. both tagged
Lifter him all the time. I believe they
aurally imagine he cares for them.'
That evening Diamonds being left
alone in the parlor with Miss Bell, drew
el Ise to her and betiding over her, said
tenderly, and almost sadly :
'lf you had not said something I heard
you say oh c.•, I would have the boldness
to ask a great favor of you.'
•Why. what dad 1 say caked she co
quettishly.
Yon said you would never live out of
New York.
%v u 6 d I did ?'
•Wliv, in San 'Francisco;
,lust then, to )lire great vexation,
s ome ohe etitend and interrupted him ,•
but the ii at day she did a great deal of
si,oppio z. , a nd began making her trosseau
immediately,
Tn e a ft een eion i a Diamonds were de
voted to basin, as visits down town, so he
said, and as lie liked to walk for no mlBtt
uriimal, he generaly managed to pass
selmoi just as it was being dis
missed, ;owl had tSi pleasure of escorting
her home. Durtog these walks he so in
grattated himself in her favor, and daz
zled tier by descriptions of his wealth and
his Mime in California, and of the mtg.
nilieetice be intended to lavish upon his
wife, that she finally consented to elope
with him, partly because it was roman
tic.
Deur mamma will be sure to forgive
me,' she thought. As she pictured her
self coming with her husband, in her
nwu elegant carriage, to ask her mother's
forgivene,s and recieve her hi. ssing and
then carrying hsr off with her to her
inane in California, which her lover had
so alowingly described.
The e vening assigned for the elope•
meat amt ed. The ,hty ronowi n was
a- the much talked of ihrthday of
Ibmiitid-, , m which he was to make
ktikiivii 1 the bust hold bits hi.tr,•thal to
3f rs. Lee, and on which also he had in a
tender. i.iguirleant tone, requested Miss
Bell to grunt him a private interview.
The ii , ndebtild were all assetnbled in
th e p.rh.r as lomat. enzaged in itt,•rry
chat. nntmondd. Nellie and
Mrs. Lee formed the hre'ie,4 group and
the hearts of the ladies were beat
ing high with their eared
Little then the three imaginad what wad
lading in each other'd minds.
Poor littl.• llie trembled like EL
frightened bird at the dreadful thins she
wi about to do. and began to repent
her rash t.o
'ln another hour: she thought grow•
lig dizzy as Ate t00k,.1 at the dock •we
most start:
not look at her lover; she.
half thous t t she hated him, and fervent.
Iv wished die had some girl friend who
mold gu with In-r iu her flight. Sne was
groivniZ more and more nervous, and had
01.11:Tilt :
.on, bow 1 wish something would hap
pen to prevent it?' when there was a
mqind of str,inge voter: , iu the hail, and
afar u rhght sommotion, a man walked
0r. , 11y into the parlor, with the eseiama
tion ;
‘Ah ! here he id.'
A m ; walk ing np tadiornoridg, he slap•
p.-d Inn t.uniharle.•n th. hack with one
t and. and jiagird a pair ~r hand otard in
the other.
Diamonds turned pale, but made no
att mpt to ascipe.
.Was going; to hit to ti (Ott' wasn't
yon ?' said the officer. for such be was.
'f'r,• been lip to mu- room, and saw
all tour duds packed.'
The excitement was dreadful.
•\t'h:tt is the matter ! What does it all
mean ? Cried everybody, in one breath
•It means thls,' said the detective.—
After a long chits- I have arrested him
for shooting a man in Colorado, and
ab , conding with his Money, besides
leaving a wift. and two children into the
bargain.
•The awful wrefrli r exclaimed Mrs
Lee and Miss Bsil simultaneously, clasp
ing their hands in horror.
'Oh !• cried Nelly, faintly. dropping in
to a seat.
Diamonds turned on them with a
6endis;l grin. KJ& ing big hand and bow-
Ina t.. 1 them in turn, he delivered Itimself
as foDotrB;
'My sweet Nellie our elopement will
have to be posponed for a while—sorry
to disappoint yon. In half ith hour we
would have been off.
'Dear Clara, we will have that little
talk some other tune:
•My own Re 6 n, gcud-by,' bowing very
low to the widow. •I am sorry our mar
riage cannot take place quite as soon as
we intended:
'The man must he crazy.' cried the la
dy 'What on earth does he mean ?'
Nellie buried her face in her mothers
LID and sobbed hysterically, but was
finally comforted by Fred Hill, a young
Devoted to the Interests of our Town and Oounty
gentlemen who had long been attached
to her, but as he had no diamonds, it 18
LO le Su pposed that he had been slow to
find favor in her eyes.
The door closed on Diamonds for the
last tone, and he left three wiser, if ant
In-tter, worn n behind him.
THE HARK/AGE VOW
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BY A. W. FASHIONER.
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"Aunt Catharine. will you forgive me
if I hint that you are looking at only
one side of the question, and talking in
way eo unlike your usual clear sense,
that—Well, it it was any other person
on eurth, I should say that it was the
height of absurdity.'
The speaker,a pretty little lady of some
four and twenty summer, looked up with
a half frightened glanee, as she finished
her speech. Her companion,a tall,hand
some lady of fifty, with a sad, sweet, dig
nified thee, glanced buck at her wit] a
reassuring smile.
"1 dare sue,Millie, that you think me
a severe and unreasonable old woman,
because I do not talke your part, and
abase your husband most rudely, in re
gard to this mutter. And if I did Cott
last thing, you would decide, in your own
sweet heart, that I ought to be burned at
the stake with all convenient dispatch !"
she added slily.
Jllllie tossed her graceful little head
scornfully in the air.
"Indeed, Aunt Catharine, I should
think no Ruch. tiling. I don't want you
to abuse Ti retort. I only wish you to
see that he is decidedly in the wrong."
"And you as decidedly in the right,"
said Mrs. Thomas, slowly.
"Why—yes," confessed Millie, with a
slight smile. "Because you know,auntie,
that I really -Am."
"Forgive tne,if I fail to see it,my dear,"
returned the elder lady.
"Now, auntie, you must know, when
Thornton is making such oceans and
oceans of money in his business, that he
can afford as well as not to treat rue to a
season at Newport or Saratoga,if he chose
to do so,"
"And all the l:ew dress's, and hats.and
gloves, and bonnets, that are to tilt the
great monsters ..1 11-ay.-Tog trunks. for
if you go to the sea-side, you will wish
to he dressed as well us yoUT neighbors".
"Of coarse line does not want to go
an ew ht•rt• looking like a flight," said
- And have you reckoned the cost of
all these things in that silly little head of
t'our's, my dour ?
"What a question ? As if I had any
thing to do with the cost, auntie ! That
is Thornton's business. And I see no
reason why tie should turn stingy ail of
a sudden like this, and want me to go on
to that horrid country village where his
brother aid sister live. Every one! know
is going not of town this year ; and the
whetters are to be splendid. There is
no use talking auntie. My mind is made
up, and I shall tease away till Thornton
consents, even if we do quarrel over it a
dozen times, just as we did this morning.
Oh, dear, this marriage How it does
alter things, to be sure!"
"And people, too." observed Mrs.
Thomas, gravely.
"Exactly, auntie, and people too.—
Thornton is a ease in point. Before he
put that plain gold ring Elton my finger,
he was ready to do anything and every
thing for me. And now, because I ooh
wish to hare u little pleasure and dress
decently, and go where my friends go, he
cries out that my extravagance wi I ruin
him. Auntie, he actually swore over it
this morning ! Fancy V. He did not
know that I heard tt. ; but I did. To
think of his swearing at me !"
"Poor fellow !"
"What auntie ?"
Mrs. brown hair nearly wood
on end at this enormity.
"Perfectly, my dear!'
"And you can A peak like that about
him, when lam telling von of his bru
bru-bru r said Millie, sobbing as
if her iii tie heart woulu break.
She. loved her aunt dearly ; and to have
ler indifferent to flo heart-rending a woe
as this, V 743 the la:t itri , v up in a camel's
hick—the Ina drop that made the full
cup of mißery to overflow. Mri. Thomas
waited patiently till the rill) drops ceased
to fall.
Then she said Seriously, but kindly :
"Millie, what did you marry Thornton
Grry lur ?"
"liecause I loved him, auntie !" said
the young wife, with a look of surprise.
"Do you love him si ?"
"If course I do. Oaly when he scolds
and swears at my extravagance—"
"Exactly. But do you - love him well
enough to rive hint no cause to scold
and swear about it ?"
Millie opened her blue eyes widel..
"What do volt mean. auntie ?"
"My dear, I will tell you what I. is
keeping from yon—una isely, as I oink.
Them is a crisis in the money market.—
You km iv what that is. With care and
prudence. and economy. and with sonic
help that I shall give him—for your sake,
my shad —your husband will weather
the storm. But if. to quiet your com
plaints and reproaches, he goes into any
such foolishySpendil urea as thii
able trip would involve, nothing can save
him. Everrclaim would be pressed. if
his creditors saw such extraratice on his
part and he could not meet them all.—
There is the truth of the whole story my,
dear. You know best what you promis
ed to be to him in your marriage vow.—
Now is the time, Millie to show him
what comfort and help a true and loving
wife can give."
"Having said this, Mrs. Thomas kissed
her niece gently and left the room.
Millie slit there in silence, with hands
clasped and tearful eves.
"And I would die for him—might
hare been his rain and his curse !" she
at length exclaimed. "Oh. why dill.he
not tell me this long ago ?"
Thornton Gry, after a weary and ens
igns day spent in the city, came to los
home at dusk with a heavy heart. He
loved his wife far more fondly now than
in days of courtshtp. It was hard. very
hard to refuse her the pleasant trip on
which her heart was set. He was half
tempted to yield, when he recalled the
harsh wards, and the angry oath. Better
runt, if . it intiSt be. than strife and dis.
sension in their once peaceful and happy
home.
Thinking thus, he oper.ed the hall
dour with his latch key. No - light burn
ed there. The parlor was also silent and
dark, No voice welcomed him. His
heart. slink heavily within his breast.—
Had Millie guile uut ?—gune still angry
with hits
She should go to Newport the next
week. if that was all. Never again after
so harassing a day, could he lace the si
leuce and sadness here at home. -He
crossed the parlor by the faint light of
the newly risen moon, and hod his hand
on the bell.
"Thornton, are you here ?" said a low
voice at the door. And, then, seeing 1
sprang forward and threw herself.
with 3 Intle soh of joy into his artn+.
"Oh, I have• watcned and waited for
you so lung I" vile said before he had time
CU speak "And I just went up stairs for
a single moment to bathe my eyes, tor
they are quite red ; and then, f suppose,
you came in."
"And what made those pretty blue
eyes red, my love ?" he ',idol],
"I hare been crying them nearly out.
And about you sir," said Millie clinging
still closer to his neck.
'Allotit Me ?"
•Yee."
"Because I was cross to you this mot n
ing my darling ? you must torgive me,
and never think of it again, I have been
nearly driven mad, of late, with hustuese
perplexities. But I am gaingt to let them
worry me tin more. My little wife
hake her trip to Newport and anything
else she wishes for, su lung 48 it i 8 in my
power
"Oh, Thornton—don't don't !" cried
poor Millie, hiving her soft round cheek,
agitiost his whiskers, and sobbing as if
her heart would br ak. 1 hate Newport
—I abhor SarAtu t ta.—l only want to stay
itli you, and help you, and keep my
marriage vow. I'll wear cal . co dresses
all ate year naiad ; I Il live on anything
—neyditlig, my deur, dear liusttand. so
Volt you shall not have it to say thut I
help ( ' to ruin you just at the time when
you fluid it so hard to get on."
And !hell She o , llld say no more, hint
nearly subbed herself into hysterics in
det d.
Ile calmed and qoothed her, when he
learned the trite state of the cas'. But
they did give tip Newport. and the
toga trunks; and Mr. Grey's creditors
seeing now modestly they lived, were
merciftl. So the crisis came and went.
and he was surd. cod now he is a rich
man, and Millie can go to Newport as
often as She likes. She Might eat and
drink gold and diamonds if she pleased,
no folidlY does her husband Ince her ; so
well (Ines he remember how, in the midst
of his own digress, she gave up her de
sires.
't'here was, five and twenty years ago,
an attorney practiczng in our courts,
named Boonton. Dad he been on the
frontier he would have been either u
I.lood letter, or an arrant coward, I
don't know which ; but here he was a
co:me grained bully ; and his chuf de
light was to badger and bully witnesses
of the opposing counsel on the Stand.
One day a horse case was on trial, in
which Boonton was for the defendant,—
Fly and by, counsel for the plaintiff called
a witness who was supp , sed to be some
thing of a horse dnctor. lie was ralti
dle.ag,,l easy. wind-natured man, clad In
tonic-spun, abuse bronzed brow and
hard hands betokened sweat and toil.—
His testimony, which was clear, simple,
and direct. made thin s look dark for
defendant, and when Blhint.it got hold
of him he proceeded to cross-question
him in his usual brutal manor-r. Said
cross examination wound up rather
abruptly as follows:
"Well, now." d •manded the counsel.
with a tomahawk-like fionrish. "What do
you know" idiom a horse. anyway.' Uo
you really prole-s to be tl horse doctor ?"
"No, 8;r, not exactly- I don't profess
to he a;horse -13ctor, but I know a good
deal &amt the miter of the beast."
"That id." cr'ed Boonton. daring first
at the wiine•ui, omit then smiling at the
junry, nodding graciously to the court,
and sweeping a iriortiohant glio.ce over
the nndieuee,—"that iv to say, sir—yon
know a horse from a jaokuti when yon
see them."
"Ah--ya—as,—jes' so returned the
witness. with impetu rhat lr good humor
and gravity, "between the two beats
dumbd never take you for the horse !"
For once in his at least, the bully
was effectually squelched, and amid the
wild roar which followed. he threw him
self into bis 8 at, and allowed the wit
ness to leave the stand.
When they Want to find nut in the
country if a girl In courting or not, an
old lady steps in and remarks, "I say !
there ain't uc one sick in thin here house
or notnio' is there ? I aeon a light burn
in' nigh int o twelve o'clock last night,
hut I didn . t smell no camphire nor
noth
in' round.
When a Tennessee. husband will horse
whip his wife f. washing potatoes in his
Solidity Ong hut, it is time to inquire
whether this genehation or men len •t, get
ting to be too confounded high toned for
the age of the country ?
When they tried to force Miss Guy. of
Independence, into a marriage
against her will, she kicked the minieer's
hat 011, knocked the ynnng man down,
and rode off on a mule with out' foot on
each aide of him.
A thirty-horse power holler recently
put in one of our faetories. was rendered
almost useless by twenty-eight of them
being taken down wtth the epizootic.—
ex.
E=::=3
It has been disemered that the jointed
fishing Tell WWI incenfrd became one
can't hide a long rate pole under his
coat Sundays.
FIFTY CTS. EXTRA IF NOT IN ADVANCE
Ile Knew It.
NUMBER 45.
MISCELLANEOUS READING.
THE OLD CLOCK ON THE STAIRS.
TIESTIT R. LUNGFELLOW
Somewhat back from the village street,
Stands the old-fashioned coultry seat;
Across its antique portico
Tall poplar trees their shadows throw,
And from its station In the hall
An ancient time-plece says to all,
"Forever—never
Never—forever 1"
Ilan way up the stairs it stands,
And points and beckons with its hands.
From its mum of massive oak. •
Like a monk who, 'neuth his cloak,
Crosses himself and sighs, alas
With sorrowful voice to all who pass
"Forever—never
Never—rorever r'
By day its voice is low and light,
But in the silent dead of night,
Distinct as a passing footstep's fall,
It echoes along the vacant hail,
Along the ceiling, along the floor,
And seems to say at each chamber door,
"Forever--Penr,
Never—forever I"
Through days of sorrow and of mirth,
Through days of death and days of birth,
Through every swift viclidtude
Of changeful time, unchanged has stood,
As if, like God, It all things saw,
It calmly repeats those words of awe,
"Forever—never,
Never—forever l"
In that mansion used to be
Free-hearto hospitality ;
Nis great fires up the chimney roared,
The stranger feasted at his board;
But, like the skeleton at the least,
That warning time-piece never ceased,
"Forever—never,
Never—forever I"
There groups of merry children played,
There youths and maidens dreaming strayed
Oh ! precious hosts, Oh ! golden prime
And affluence cf love and thus;
Even as a miser counts Ida gold,
Those hours the ancient time-piece told,
"Forever—never,
Never--forever f'
All are scattered now and fled,
Some are married, some are dead,
And when I ask with throbs of pain. ,
"Ai), wizen shall they ar, meet again r
As in the clays long sinee gone by,
The ancient timepiece makes reply,
"Forever—never.
Never—forever I"
Never here, forever there,
Where all parting, pain, and care,
And death and time 'ball disappear , —
Forever there, but never here ;
The horologe of eternity
Sayeth this irkeem. tatty.
"Forever—never,
Never—forever 1"
SCIENCE AND BREAD
One of our excellent contemporaries
has an article on Vie trisect plagues of the
present year —grasshoppers,Colorado bee
phylloxera, and so on, and bitterly
complains that scientific men do not tell
us the remedy for these things. It thinks
men of sci•uCe should drop questions of
purely theoretical interest, and turn to
those winch are practical. There is u
possibility, it sari, of doing without the
ories,but no possibility doing without
bread. Ir farther remarks that the ray.
ages of the gntsstioppet alone proves bow
inadequate is science to deal with the
present subject of the alleviation of the
wants or miseries of Mall hind.
Only that tnese sentiments appear in
a very respectable paper. we should hard
ly suppose them held by any • person of
intelligence. It would he rather bard
after some scientist had shown U 8 that
there was a power in steam, to insist
that he should make a locomotive, and
even should he a•setit to this,comperriita
to mount the engine and poll the cars
over the track. For years past the French
have suffered em-ribiy in their vineyards,
and to some extent we also. Riley, in
this country, and Planchon in Europe, at
length pointed out the existance of a
root parasite. and spent an immense
amount of time in tracing them through
all their transformations. Are they to be
dubb , d' humbugs because they tell us no
more? The idea that these men are to
give bread, as well as furnish the tools
for knowledge is a strong impliment in
the developetnent of human progress—is
preposterous.
There is bat one way to get bread and
that is the one laid down in the tegin
hing, by the sweat of one's brow. Sci
ence may show how to cool the perspir
ing skin, and. how to ease the aching
back ; hot th.tt it is to work while we
sleep or sit u.,der the shade perusing
"FLotra of Idleness," never entered into
nal - tire's law.
We are not among those who believe
that mere science has done as much for
agriculture us some of na votaries claim
for it. Our only wonder is that
science has done us mach as it
has, not that it should have done more.
as our c.ottemnorary thinks. The men
of science—time who are continually
working to gather new fo3ta for us, and
who try to lay bare the laws of nature to
our common understanding, are very few
Most of them fur the love of science de
voted the labor of their lives for a very
meager co-opensation. In homiests they
might have been wealthy. In scienee
they Timely make anything. Their labors
are mostly free gifts to us. Let them go
on and Iluu out the truths of nature.—
le•t as not cavil that they do rot care to
turn their own truths into money. It is
for us to do that. Let them give us tools
if they like, but the cultivation of the
soil is our work to do.—Germantown
Telegraph.
The tale residence of General Butler,
in Washington, is pow wed as a colored
club house.
Speak well of your friends—of your
enemies say
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TALK ABOUT BOMB.
After all when one comes to think of
it, there are not many hums: There are,
of course, iunntrierable Places Which 'go
by the name of Mimes, called so fur want
of a be ter desiguit, ion, or bet itoe every
body calls the lilacs where f a eats and
sleeper:homer but when you come down
to the real suberlact, homes are compar
atively aeon*.
hum. -is a refuge place from the
storms, the het and worn utfife, It is a
place where the husband conies toe sanc
tuary, %lore smiled and loving minis an
swer his milks and loving gteetinse. , tt
is a place where the wife retails in her
benignity mid grace; nut, it may be, the
grace of outward beauty, ur cultivation,
but of true wtirnatiliood, where slut re
ceives honor and love even us she gives
them bush. It is a place where children
are happier than Anywhere else in the
world, because there : are the cheeriest
words. the brightest looks, and the kind
est acts. Such are not the majority of
the homes as we find them.
How often dues it happen that when
you see a 'real home, a ligot, plea.saut
spot, there ev .ry one entertains perhaps
generous friends, they dress their wiles
unit daughters splendidly; and a tmetimes
though nut ot'en, they keep their
ei eases sufficiently in check not
toe beyond tne very last penny of their
incomes. They usu illy contrive to give
their sons such educations its will enable
them to wrest a respectable livingirem
fortune. For their daughters, they rely
on the profession of marriage. It is not
just to say that they are , ipardlytot
wards them. Far from it. he boast
portion of their showy expenditure is ob
tained through their parents wishes as
well as it own;
The head of the household is too much
absorbed by external occupation, ditties,
and labors, to notice internal arraoge
men ts much. lie is probably a f.nd,
proud husband and father, and like+ his
children, as well as his wife, to look well
and be hoppy. With t rests the res
ponsibility of producing the desired effect,
while hispart is to supply the purse.
The bad, seltish falter is he miserable
exception, not the rule; toe every-day
father will do everything for his - children
short of exerting parental authority in
minor matters. lie may sternly forbid
no imprudent match ; he may grumble
now and then at a n o than usually ex...
orbtant milliner's bill; hut he can
ly be scolded or caress d into winking
at may fully or extravagance shorted a
hail match. But, relying on the good
comitt , 4 establishment, he. makes no fu
ture pntvision for his doughters,atid rare
ly dors the doubt, arise in his or her
nund,that the u lacknowledged hat relied
u ton prefession may never open its doors
to the aspirants. -
Will PEOPLE ARE POOR.
Whitt doth hinder, any man from earn
ing his own living ? hh,ess may come,
sudden calamity may lull. Against these
even energy may he powerless ; but. apart
from this,it is to he assumed that he who
rods. fails because lie Jacks wisdom, and
nut opportunity. ,And the same weak
ilea which firket;ted WM from grasping
the opportunity, prevents him from keep
ing hold it after It has been put into
his builds. Once in a while,—pace in a
great while—a timely succor avails in a
moment of temporary weaktiesNor averts
the eotisequeece of a - mistake, and the
man starts ahead at a swinging -pace.--
But °richer the results seem to indicate
that it is of very little , use to help people
who canntg, help themselves. The king.
.font of pauperism is within tht:m. 'The
very cause that makes them puor keeps
them poor. It is tint that society bears
down bard upon them. 'lt is that, they
are self-indulgent. If, you see a widow
and five
you
shivering over, , a
,few
embers, you pity them, .and you must
send them coal but you cannot help
feeling a wrathful emit mpt at• knowing
that they all went to the
photo.ira r hees
vesteiday and had pictures ,tatien, after
buying a couple of twenty Hie cent
brooches, on the wae,to a torn themselves
withal. The very thing that yourself
would hesitate to do. an account of the
expellee, people who are partially depend
ent on your charity will do without hesi
tation. Where you will practice a natur
al, cheerful,' unthinking self-denial, they
will practice an equally Cheerful;
an
thinking self indulgence. The remnants
tit bread that you dry, in the oven and
save for ftrure use, they throw away,--
The fragmentary vest sleeve that,,,,,yon
fashion into a fiat-iron holds, th ey put,
into the rag bug and boy new cloth for
their holderi. Wiere you rise at half
nag. six they lie till hail-past seven.—
Where you walk they ride. Where you
pray and watch and strive to do your
work thoroughly. they are 'content with
anything that will answer'. That is the
.reason people are so poor.
SOCIAL INTERCOURSE.
Withant friends what is man ? A sol
itary oak upod a stela- rock, symmetri
cal indeed in its form. beanlifi4
quisitely finished out rivaling the most
lauded perfection of art to gniesifidnees
and granduer, but over which decay hal
shaken her black wing, and left its leaves
blighted; its limbs contract as they. die,
its roots. - rottenese, snit its bloom_ deutb,a
scathed, liteless monument of itspristine
beauty. When the rebuffs rite ,versity
are rushing us eastward, when the chindi
black above: and the .muttering,thunder
growls along, the sky, when our frump is
palsied by the skeleton hand of' disease,
or our senses whirled' in the maeltrom
chaos -of insanity, when our hearts
are torn by the separation -of some
beloved object, while our tears are yet
flowing upon the, treeh turf of departed
innocence.—itt that. time it is the office of
friendship to shield us ,from portentious
storm, to qitieketi the tainting pulses of
our sickly fnune, to bring the wandering
star of mind . within the attraction of
svmpaltetic kindness, to your tbe"oil
and balm" of
,peace into the yet flistering
wound, 40 dyliver the itching beart from
the ()Naar of its bkrediug affection.